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calcified



ADJECTIVE
petrified
Synonyms


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Still, credit the Administration for injecting more competition into a calcified U.S. defense industrial base.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

But they’d calcified and become larger, causing inflammation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"We were surprised by how much P. gingivalis was present in the calcified aortic valves," Li said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

"Apparently they just sort of die down and they calcify basically. So at this point they are now calcified."

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

When José Arcadio Buendía and the four men of his expedition managed to take the armor apart, they found inside a calcified skeleton with a copper locket containing a woman’s hair around its neck.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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